Is It Just Me? - GUEST: Tess from McLeod's Daughters joins us 🐴

Episode Date: July 25, 2021

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Is it just me? A podcast by a couple of Mitches. It's Coombs' birthday. We've got a lot of surprises lined up for him this week. In fact... Oh, can you hear that? That's our surprise guest alarm. Oh my god. What? They're here? Oh my god, I had to install that with a text.

Oh, I thought that was real. No, that's the birthday guest alarm. I was like, fuck, the place is on fire. Yeah, Sam, I might need your assistance out there to let our guest in. Oh, yes. Mitch, you look up to the Zoom screens, please. Yeah. Because the first guest is entering shortly.

Ladies and gentlemen, please welcome Australian producer, screen and stage royalty, currently on Home and Away, best known for her role as Tess on McLeod's Daughters. Ladies and gentlemen, Bridie Carter is here! You are kidding. Hello. Hello, Bridie. is here. You are kidding. Hello. Hello, Bridie.

Welcome to the show, Mitchell. Oh, it's Tess from McLeod's Daughters. You're kidding. Hello. Hello. You don't realise how much I cherished you and your character all through my childhood. Oh, my God. Jenna, it's Tess. Well, that just makes me feel old, but that's okay.

Don't insult the guest. I'm only turning 25. I wasn't a child that long ago. You're 50 seconds late, aren't you? Oh, yeah, 100%. Happy birthday. Thank you so much, Bridie. Wow, this is amazing.

Thanks for dropping in. Really, it's just what one does. I do like to insta-stalk you occasionally as well. You look like you live in a beautiful spot. Where are you again? I'm in the Byron Shire, so I'm on my farm here. Oh, that is glorious. I am.

I feel fortunate. I feel pretty lucky, especially at the moment. Yeah, and you're not locked down or anything, are you? Well, we're a bit of anything. We've got restrictions, but we're not locked down, but we are waiting. So who knows? It's a moving beast at the moment. It definitely is.

How are you two going? Listen, hold on. Mitchell, he's used to doing the heavy lifting lifting bridie he's like ready to ask interview questions i was just about to say but i just wanted to ask you how you were how are you mitchell on your birthday very well i'm doing good i was just gonna say i don't feel that you've aged a day since you left mcleod's daughter you look exactly the same so much i don't. I don't, but I love you. That's so kind.

You guys do the occasional reunion, don't you? Like you've got the cast and a bunch of fans that come along. We do. We do all of that, which when someone spoke to me about it, I don't know, about five years ago, I was like, I'm not very comfortable with the fan thing anyway or I don't get it. And I was like, why would they want to come? Why do they want to meet us? I don't get that. And I was like, why would they want to come? Why do they want to meet us?

I don't get that. And then I went and I was like, oh, my goodness. But I loved it because you get to meet people, well, we did face-to-face in the same theatre or room or paddock, and they tell you intimately how much the show meant to them. So I just loved it. Well, all the episodes are up now on Stan. If anyone wants to take a trip down memory lane,

watch McLeod's Daughters. Bridie, listen, Mitch adores you. We adore you. There literally is not a show that goes by where McLeod's Daughters is not brought up. We even played that. Yeah, we do actually. Jenna and I are big McLeod's Daughters fans.

What is it? Why is it so? Why? I think it just has, because I'm from a rural area as well, and I just think it has a lot of heart to it, that show. There's just something sentimental about it. And we did a segment where we were rating the best TV theme songs. Jenna put McLeod's Daughters forward,

and everything about it is so nostalgic and lovely to me. Best. Yeah, no, it is true. I mean, we did, you know, the truth is, I mean, people might say this, but we truthfully all put our hearts and souls into that show. And I know the show profoundly affected me professionally, yes, but personally, obviously, now here I am. I'm a girl who grew up in inner city Melbourne and I'm on my farm

breathing cattle. Like, hello. Like, I do have days where I go, this is so weird. Like, here I am doing this stuff that I did, and I would never have predicted it, ever. No, you've been converted into a real country girl. Can I ask, though, why did you leave? Because the show was kind of shit after you left.

Oh, why did I leave? Because, I'll tell you why. I was filming until i was nearly eight months pregnant with my first son otis and then i was back on that set i was flying to the when he was four weeks old oh my god my first baby crazy yeah should have had a maternity leave and then i was back filming sort of when he was five weeks old and we did that for a year as a family but then it was just like i shouldn't have gone back so soon, the truth of it. And I think it was just full on.

And I also, you know what, I wanted to leave the show when I still felt so proud and connected to it and still loved it. I didn't ever, and I was, you know, I was a little bit burnt out having had a baby and working so hard. But there is talk that something may happen. Oh, I've learned not to get too excited. Every time there's rumours of a reunion, I get all excited. But I think now you're the closest that you've actually been, right?

Like they're actually chatting with Channel 9 about it. No, they are. There's everyone's chatting. So the truth is the feature film script has been written and Posey's very, you know, she posts about this, the creator of the show, Posey Graham Evans, and a budget has been done. Wow. I don't know if that scared the bejesus out of her or not,

but we're getting closer, you know, to it actually happening. But to step back into Tess McLeod's shoes all these years later, I've never done that with a character who I'm so intimate with, of course. It would be quite phenomenal, I reckon. I just think it would be so interesting. Yeah, well, fortunately you look exactly the same, so it should be a natural fit. Yeah, we can start back at her 21st birthday.

That would be a great premiere episode. Oh, I'd like that. Hey, Bridie, this was amazing. You are incredible. I think this is a pretty good birthday surprise. The show has just started. Thank you so much, Bridie. My pleasure. Happy, happy birthday. Thank you very much show has just started. Thank you so much, Bridie. My pleasure.

Happy, happy birthday. Thank you very much. We love you. We'll talk soon, okay? All right. Thank you. Have a great night. It looks like you are.

Oh, we will. Don't you worry. We'll have a drink for you. See you, Bridie. Bye, Bridie. Bye. See, what an icon. There we go.

Guest one done and dusted, Bridie Carter. Were you expecting that? No. There we go. Guess one, done and dusted. Brady Carter. Were you expecting that? No.

There was not one part of my withered brain that thought that Tess McLeod was going to pop up on the fucking computer screen in front of me. Listen, I told you. I got a black book of celeb guests. I just never use it for this show. I know. Is it just me? You should follow these idiots online. Search Couple of Mitches.